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16:9 new issue up
A Danish online journal of film studies that is published five times pro anno. The essays, articles, interviews and reviews are primarily in Danish but each issue features an article in English written by a film scholar.

Bright Lights Film Journal new issue up
San Fran mag geared to underground, gay, but also classic films. Issue 56, is now up. The site is well archived, providing relevant links to previous issues that could keep you glued to your monitor.

Cadrage
French language journal written in with the spirit of serious reflections on cinema.

Cantrills Filmnotes
Although out of action, this is the site for the legendary Australian magazine. Committed to experimental film, it contains a handy section listing the contents of every issue.

Cahiers du cinéma updated
New Cahiers site is up.

Cashiers du Cinemart
Zine with an emphasis on cult cinema. Site currently being updated.

Chaos Mag: multi perspectives to meaningful cinema
A quarterly online magazine that aims to create a provocative space to discuss meaningful cinema, in an accessible language, taking an Indian viewer’s perspective, i.e., the world of cinema seen through an Indian angle.

Cineaste
Online version of this magazine, with sample articles. A film magazine genuinely committed to the relationship between film, art and politics.

Cinema Scope
Several articles from the hardcopy edition are available online. Highly recommended.

Contracampo
An exciting and comprehensive Portugese online film journal, divided into five sections: Artigos (articles), updated monthly; Críticas (criticism), current releases updated weekly; Plano Geral, a section devoted to free writing on various topics; Programação (program), which lists the most interesting festival or film programs showing in Brazil; and Arquivo, their archive.

Convergence
Subtitled “The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies”, this is the web page for the journal, with the contents and abstracts of the hard copy articles.

Documenter
They no longer have their own website, but the National Library of Australia has archived copies available online.

El Amante
A monthly Spanish-language journal.

Film Comment updated
Online version of the New York magazine, featuring several sample articles from each hard copy issue.

Film International updated
Bimonthly journal Film International founded in Sweden 1973 as Filmhäftet. They say, “We aim not to be just a scholarly journal, but a new breed of film magazine, mixing established academic film scholars (and other scholars) with renowned film journalists, trying to reach a wider circle of readers. The main focus is on longer essays with in-depth-analysis and interviews. However, there is also an extensive review section on books, DVDs and films at the cinema”. Recommended.

Film Ireland Magazine
A bi-monthly publication with reviews and news on the latest in Irish and world cinema. Excerpts from their hardcopy issues can be read online.

Filmmaker
A quarterly journal based in New York that offers news and information on the independent film scene. A few articles from their hardcopy issues are available online.

The Film Journal
Quarterly online film journal with essays, interviews, and reviews.

Film and Philosophy
Film and Philosophy is a journal that publishes philosophical essays on film. The site also doubles as Editor Daniel Shaw's personal website. A subscription site with content from earlier volumes available online. Volume 2 can still be found here.

Film-Philosophy
A philosophical review of cinema, with a special “email salon” for further dialoguing. So if you're looking for a critical approach / discussion of cinema, this is the site. There's plenty here.

Film Quarterly
The web page of this well-known magazine, includes a list of the contents of all issues. For a subscription fee, you can read articles from their current and back issues here. For free email updates click here.

Flicker
Here you will find films and videos that transgress the boundaries of the traditional viewing experience, challenge notions of physical perception and provide cutting edge alternatives to the media information technocracy. Site contains information about the films and their filmmakers, images and news about alternative cinema. Updated regularly, highly recommended.

Flickhead
With new design and articles. Also includes Chabrol and Buñuel tribute pages.

Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media
Legendary hardcore British magazine's website. Published bi-annually, Framework is an international journal dedicated to plural approaches to film and media. Site contains subscription information and several articles from previous issues are available online. Contents of following issues are also available.

Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
Online mag that is pretty stunning graphically, as well as providing some good content. Current postings: 'The Fall of Janet Leigh', reviews of recent films and plenty more in its archive section.

IndieWire
A high-end mag, attuned to American indies especially, great with industry news, reports from festivals. Regularly updated.

Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media
A bi-yearly journal that deals with all aspects of cult media – television, film, radio, literary cults and cult authors, new media cults, theorizations of cult media etc. The journal also has a 'Cult Media Review' section that has reviews of books, various conferences and conventions etc. Issue 3 Spring 2003 is a special horror issue.

The Journal of Religion and Film
If you approach cinema from this direction, this is an indispensable site. Also has reviews of recent films.

Jump Cut
No. 47, Winter 2005 has a special section entitled, "Documentary theory, new documentaries, and “contemporary events” fictions". Essays from earlier issues are now online. Recommended.

Kinema
A semi-annual journal for film and audiovisual media that publishes articles, critiques of film and media literature. The journal's aim is to promote the discussion of history, theory and aesthetics of film and audiovisual media from an international perspective. Several articles from each issue are available online.

Kinoeye
Amazing journal for articles and information on Central and Eastern European film, covering many (obscure) art films. It's updated fortnightly, with between 4 and 10 original pieces on fringe European cinema in every issue.

KinoKultura
Updated quarterly, KinoKultura contains reviews, articles and news on Russian cinema.

Millennium Film Journal Although it doesn’t have any of its articles online, the site lists all of the journal’s issues since 1978 which are all available by mail-order. The journal deals with independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema, video, and, more recently, works that use the newer technologies.

Offscreen updated
A very impressive Canadian site that's been online several years now. Updated regularly with a huge archive of great articles on art and independent cinemas.

Otrocampo
For Spanish-speaking cinephiles, here's an online film journal well worth checking out. (Site currently unavailable...)

P.O.V.
A Danish journal of film studies that devotes their March issues to short films.

Proboscis | COIL
A site associated with the English journal Coil, devoted to experimental cinema. A few sample articles available.

RealTime
Online version of the Australian arts magazine, featuring the film section “OnScreen”.

Reverse Shot : Online new issue up
Bi-monthly online film journal. Issue 19 is now up.

Rouge new issue up
Issue 10 now up. Recommended.

Savage Cinema updated
A bi-monthly publication dedicated to horror cinema. Includes feature articles, reviews and other interesting topics.

Screening the Past new issue up
Latrobe University's film and history online journal. Issue 20 is now up.

Sight and Sound
Online version of this BFI magazine, has several articles from each hard copy issue. Also includes a fully browse-able archive of their online articles.

Synoptique new issue up
New monthly / weekly web journal from Quebec whose main interest is in publishing bilingual and eclectic film criticism, theory and scholarship. Fine design. Recommended.

The Thinking Eye
An online magazine devoted to Latin-American cinema. Available in English, Spanish and some texts in Portuguese.

Vertigo: Independent Film Magazine updated
A quarterly British film magazine. Impressive range of contributors and subject-matter. As well as subscribtions for their print magazine, they also produce a monthly mini-mag available free and exclusively online.

Views Reviews Interviews
A Journal of Cinema and Cultural Theory with a focus on Indian cinema. Although it's the 1999 issue, the articles are still worth reading. Features articles on Kurosawa, Wajda and Brecht.

World Socialist Web Site
A major site for film writing, on art cinema – reviews, festival reports, and more. Regularly updated.

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Critics' Pages

24FPS
24FPS has ceased activity. However, a web archive of all their articles is available online.

David Bordwell's Website on Cinema updated
David Bordwell's homepage. Includes an "Online Essays" section that will be regularly updated.

Fred Camper updated
Chicago Reader critic Fred Camper's page, has essays on experimental figures such as Brakhage and Gehr, but also on others such as Mizoguchi, Welles, de Toth. There is also a thought-provoking listing of “Favorite Filmmakers” – one of the best alternative canons you'll ever see.

Chronicle of a Passion
A number of the sites featured here get updated regularly by their authors, and this is one of the best ones to keep a regular eye on. Home page of New York critic Steve Erickson, with a mammoth archive of reviews of films from recent years, and a special section on French film critic Serge Daney. Includes a great links section which lists the pages of a score of critics worldwide.

Cinema Reviews & Criticism
Harry Marshall's site, a writer from the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK. It includes a growing section dedicated to film reviews and criticsm with a primary focus on the 1920s and 1930s. A series of articles is in progress covering the career of the director and producer, Ernst Lubitsch.

Cinephilia
A Melbourne-based site, it has reviews of films showing around town plus a searchable and browseable database of over 1000 films.

Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost's site contains writings on many genres and filmmakers.

deep focus updated
Critic Bryant Frazer's website, full of thoughtful reviews of current and recent releases. Site is well designed. Regularly updated.

Chris Fujiwara: Writing
Great site with links to many of film critic's Chris Fujiwara's writings, an impressive assortment of reviews and essays on a number of genres, films and directors.

Raymond Durgnat
A site dedicated to the late Ray Durgnat. Contains bio and his writings.

Long Pauses updated
A fine looking site with various writings on film and literature.

Movie Diva
North Carolina Museum of Art film curator Laura Boyes' website containing film annotations on classic arthouse and modern classics.

Theo Panayides
Cypriot critic with his own website, full of capsule reviews (of mainly recent films), and a host of Best lists (his own, links to others', etc.). And he has the best ratings system around. Regularly updated.

Gerald Peary updated
Peary's writing is very accessible, highly recommended. Includes reviews, essays and interviews. Regularly updated.

B. Ruby Rich
The legendary feminist author's own website, with excerpts from her work, and several discussion groups.

Jonathan Rosenbaum
This is not, strictly speaking, JR's own page – it's the Chicago Reader's Movie Section. Still, he features prominently, and all the reviews are lengthy and wonderful, with a great archive section also.

Bill Routt
Latrobe Uni academic William D. Routt's home page – a man with a sense of humour and quite varied interests!

Henry Sheehan updated
Film critic Sheehan's site contains film reviews, essays and interviews. His piece, “Seen Any Poor People at the Movies Lately?” discusses film as a class based activity. Definitely one to keep a regular eye on.

Strictly Film School
Neat, loving site by NASA engineer Acquarello, providing a great introduction to and overview of art cinema, featuring directors such as Tarkovsky, Bresson, Chabrol, Leigh, Paradjanov, Sautet, and many others.

The UK Critic This is Ian Waldron-Mantgani's site. Contains articles, links, retrospectives and reviews of UK cinema releases.

Armond White
This is not his personal site, it's a link to the New York Press. His article(s) can be found in the “film” section of the site.

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Screen Organisations/Resources

Anthology Film Archives
Based in New York, it is dedicated to the preservation, study and exhibition of independent and avant-garde film. It is the first museum devoted to film as an art form, committed to the guiding principle that a great film must be seen many times, that the film print must be the best possible, and that the viewing conditions must be optimal.

American Cinemateque
The website for the Amercian Cinemateque at the Egyptian Theatre. Includes program notes and their DVD distribution.

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
ACMI is Australia's first centre dedicated to experiencing, exploring and enjoying the moving image in all its forms. New website.

ACMI Lending Collection
Wanna see a film? If you live in Australia, especially in Victoria, this is where various collections are housed – the ever-expanding ACMI Lending Collection, the National Film and Video Lending Collection, and the French Embassy Collection.

Australian Film Commission
A comprehensive website of Australia's government film organisation with information on the organisation, what services and resources it provides to the film community, and the latest news.

Australian Film Institute
The AFI's website.

Australian Screen Directors Association
Organisation representing the needs and interests of Australian screen directors. Site includes information about membership, the organisation's newsletter and other links.

Australia's Cultural Network
The online gateway to Australian cultural organisations, websites, resources, events and news.

The Production Book
Australian Film and Television Industry directory for crew, suppliers and production information.

British Film Institute
The BFI's homepage, containing info on all their activities (screenings, Sight and Sound magazine, etc.)

Cinématèque Francais
A guide to screenings at and publications of the hallowed Cinémathèque Française (Paris), with extensive programme notes, plus links.

Cinématèque Ontario
The site for this Cinemateque. Also has information on how to purchase their publications.

Cinematore
An Italian cinema search engine.

The European Graduate School
Its faculty members include, Chantal Akerman, Catherine Breillat and David Lynch just to name a few. Here you can find a list of resources on these EGS faculty members.

Film Arts Foundation
FAF is a San Fran-based organisation dedicated to the support of independent film and video makers.

Film Australia updated
A Commonwealth-owned production and distribution company. Its mission is the creation of an audio-visual record of Australian life, through the commissioning, distribution and management of programs which deal with matters of national interest to Australia or illustrate and interpret aspects of Australian life. You can search their titles here. The Film Australia Library now online.

Internet Movie Database
Looking for some info on a film or director? Try this database.

LUX
British film organisation (descended from the London Film Co-op among others) set up to preserve and distribute independent film and video. Has a 'featured' section with interviews and reviews.

Media Resource Centre
Adelaide's film centre.

Media Review Query Engine
You can find reviews on almost any film on this database.

Melbourne Cinémathèque
This site offers full program details for the Melbourne and Oz Cinémathèque.

National Library of Australia
If you go to their Pandora archive on this page, you can see archive copies of Senses of Cinema, i.e. with all the old designs of the journal, all the old index pages, etc.

Österreichisches Filmmuseum
The Vienna Film Museum's links page contains links to many international film festivals, archives and databases.

Peripheral Produce
Describing themselves as a “propaganda machine that promotes cinematic endevours”, this group promotes and sells copies of selected short works, organises screenings at random locations and holds an annual documentary and experimemental film festival.

RMIT - AFI Research Collection
The AFI Library has gone through a name change and is now located at RMIT University in Melbourne. The new site includes the online catalogue, new extended opening hours, mailing list details and research services.

RML Movie Page
Australian director Richard Lowenstein's impressive directory, linking to literally hundreds and hundreds of web pages.

ScreenSound Australia
Dedicated to the collection, preservation and sharing of Australia's screen and sound heritage. The National Collection includes more than one million items and is available for all Australians.

V tape
Based in Toronto, V tape is an international distribution, exhibition and resource centre that focusses on the contemporary media arts. Carrying over 2000 titles, V tape also promotes the distribution of Aboriginally produced film.